violent video games affect children’s views on killing. Leo also points out how these

types of games desensitize children and make it easier for them to kill.

According to John Leo, “We are now a society in which the chief form of play for

millions of youngsters is making large numbers of people die ”(360). Millions of children

are addicted to playing violent video games. Children know the difference between reality

and fantasy; however there are a few unstable children who get a hold of these violent

video games. It is the neglected, beaten, picked on and made fun of children who begin to

imagine these violent games as more than they really are(360). “Adolescent feelings of

resentment, powerlessness, and revenge poor into the killing games. I

Most video games today make it easier to know how to kill someone and may even desensitize children to violence. Grossman says, “Michael Carneal, the schoolboy shooter in Paducah, Ky., showed the effects of video-game lessons in killing”(360). Carneal fired his weapon nine times, and he hit five people in the head. “Head shots pay a bonus in many video games”(360). The killing in the video games is supposed to be harmless fun. “This looks like the final lesson in a course to eliminate any lingering resistance to killing”(360).

Leo cites psychologist David Grossman of Arkansas State University, a retired Army officer, to help support his views on violent video games. “During World War II only 15 to 20 percent of all American soldiers fired their weapons in battle. Shooting games in which the target is a man-shaped outline, the Army found, made recruits more willing to

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